Middle School
	Welcome to the Middle School at LREI

A Time for Intellectual and Academic Growth. The Middle School continues a strong commitment to active, experiential education. Academic challenges grow and multiply. We emphasize the development of study and research skills and demand even higher levels of excellence as children learn through close study of literature and texts, as well as through individual and collaborative projects.

A Time for Emotional Growth. At the same time as we stress individual achievement, and the intensive development of academic and intellectual skills, we also believe that children who are entering the transitional stages of adolescence require a setting in which their needs are supported each step of the way in which to test who they are. We carefully provide a consistent, predictable environment that both counterbalances and validates each student's experience of so much personal challenge and change. Our Middle School curriculum provides opportunities for students to gain increasing independence. Each year, youngsters are challenged through stages of independent thinking and decision making, balanced by a level of support which is sensitive to the concerns and needs of children this age. This dual approach helps students intellectually and emotionally to move into the world of High School.

A Commitment to the Whole Child. Middle School students have a busy week. In addition to all the academics math, language arts, social studies, science, foreign language, computer, art, music and drama we enrich their lives through special events such as:

• Science trips (in Central Park...and on the Clearwater sloop...)

• 6th Grade Medieval pageant

• 7th Grade poetry evening

• The Middle School Shakespeare Company

• Weekly Middle School assemblies

• All-school choral concerts

• Sports: softball, basketball, soccer, volleyball

• The Middle School Literary Festival

• The Middle School Musical

• The Middle School band

• Ancient Art and Artifacts Museum

• Student Government

• Dance parties and canteens

The skills of managing so many academic demands balancing daily responsibilities, long term projects and special events are carefully developed throughout the Middle School years and are an essential part of our program.


A Commitment to the Community.Through community service projects, cooperative learning and all-school activities, Middle School students learn about individual responsibility and their role as members of a larger community. This careful development of the skills of active citizenship is a thread which runs through the entire school's program. The idealism of young adolescents too often goes to waste; in our view it amounts to a national resource, to be treasured and nurtured at all costs.